A THEORETICAL TRAVEL TIME BASED ON WATERSHED HYPSOMETRY1

ABSTRACT: The time to hydrograph peak of a watershed basin has been found to correlate with various statistical attributes (e.g., skewness and kurtosis) of its hypsometric curve (treated as probability distribution). This paper presents a theoretical travel time that is conceptually analogous to the time to hydrograph peak and can be calculated directly from the hypsometric curve of a watershed basin based on gravity and acceleration. The theoretical travel times for 23 selected watersheds in the United States are found to correlate significantly with their corresponding hypsometric attributes. In addition, the theoretical travel times are consistent with the times of concentration estimated from the Federal Aviation Administration method. Thus, this paper offers a simple theoretical explanation to the empirically identified linkage between time to hydrograph peak and hypsometric attributes. This theoretical travel time can provide an alternative way of characterizing the effects of basin morphometry on hydrologic response.     

基于地形起伏度的贵州省土地利用/土地覆盖空间结构分析

分别应用高差、地表面积与投影面积的比值作为指标来衡量贵州省的地形起伏度,并基于此来分析土地利用/土地覆盖空间结构。结果表明,地形起伏对贵州省土地利用的控制性较强,各种用地不能形成规模,彼此交叉分布,空间上垂直分异明显;受地形起伏影响,贵州省的土地利用/土地覆盖结构混乱,土地利用困难、利用率低,土地整理工作难度大。     

基于空间信息技术的呼伦湖流域研究

通过对干涉雷达技术任务(SRTM)数据处理,运用土壤与水评价工具(SWAT)模型对呼伦湖整个流域的数字高程模型(DEM)进行水文特征提取,分析流域地形分布情况。呼伦湖全流域面积约为25.6万km2,蒙古国部分约为16.3万km2,约占总面积的63.7%。坡度为0～2.0°的地形主要分布在中国境内的呼伦湖南岸和东岸以及贝尔湖周边的平坦草原上,降雨主要被植被截留和土壤吸收,产汇流条件差;而呼伦湖的主要水源、产汇流条件较好的克鲁伦河和乌尔逊河,其产流区大部分位于蒙古国。2国应加强流域综合管理,合理配置水资源,以保证下游入湖的水量来防止呼伦湖的持续萎缩。     

基于DEM的山区旱灾风险评价模型——以西南地区为例

旱灾研究中,地形导致的水热再分配容易造成地域间旱灾灾情的明显差异,因此地形因子对于旱灾风险的准确评价及灾情的客观评估至关重要。采用气象站点观测数据和DEM数据,通过模拟复杂地形影响下的下垫面真实水分情况,加入地形因子的影响,建立了以干旱致灾因子(水分条件)、孕灾环境(地形)、承灾体(农作物脆弱性曲线)综合的旱灾风险评价三度模型;并以地形复杂、旱灾多发的西南地区为例,编制了旱灾风险等级图,以期为客观评估旱灾灾情,有效开展区域旱灾风险防范提供科学依据。     

NETWORK AND SUBWATERSHED PARAMETERS EXTRACTED FROM DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS: THE BILLS CREEK EXPERIENCE1

ABSTRACT: An automated extraction of channel network and sub-watershed characteristics from digital elevation models (DEM) is performed by model DEDNM. This model can process DEM data of limited vertical resolution representing low relief terrain. Such representations often include ill-defined drainage boundaries and indeterminate flow paths. The application watershed is an 84 km² low relief watershed in southwestern Oklahoma. The standard for validation is the network and subwatershed parameters defined by the blue line method on USGS 7.5–minute topographic maps. Evaluation of the generated and validation networks by visual comparisons shows a high degree of correlation. Comparison of selected network parameters (channel length, slope, drainage density, etc.) and of drainage network composition (bifurcation, length, slope, and area ratios) shows that, on the average, the generated parameters are within 5 percent of those derived from the validation network. The largest discrepancies were found for the channel slope values. The results of this application demonstrate that DEDNM effectively addresses network definition problems often encountered in low relief terrain and that it can generate accurate network and subwatershed parameters under those conditions.     

中国陆地多年平均积温空间化研究

将海拔高度等反映区域特性的因子作为变量引入GIS空间化模型是提高气象数据估算精度的重要途径。根据聚类的思想,将研究区域进行聚类分区,使分区内积温分布特征一致性趋强。然后利用统计方法寻找各分区年积温随海拔变化的规律,以获得较高精度的估算结果。论文提出的基于分区DEM修正反距离空间化方法,与常用的空间化方法如克里格法、反距离平方法相比,解决了积温空间分布复杂性的问题,并一定程度上考虑了气象站点空间分布的稀疏性、不均匀性以及受海拔和区域差异等因素对积温分布的影响,具有较高的估算精度,适合于较大范围的年积温空间化。另外,由于气象台站分布在相对较低的区域,高海拔区域积温估算精度很低,利用此方法解决了高海拔区域积温估算的精度问题。     

基于DEM地表水文特征和汇水子流域的提取研究

文章以天津于桥水库上游流域为研究对象,以DEM(数字高程模型)为基础数据,对DEM生成方法、DEM精度、流域地形地貌特征及阈值的选取三个方面分别作了详细研究。试验结果表明,从于桥水库上游流域的水文特征所提取的河网分布与河流与实际分布情况基本吻合,淋河、沙河、黎河三大流域的面积误差范围分别为-3.44%、2.28%和7.63%。     

渭干—库车河三角洲绿洲土壤盐渍化空间分布特征遥感监测研究

渭干-库车河三角洲绿洲是位于塔里木盆地北缘的具有典型干旱特征的绿洲。干旱地区生态环境脆弱,土壤盐渍化严重破坏了国民经济的生产和生态环境的平衡,所以对干旱区盐渍化问题进行系统的研究是非常必要的。本文采用研究区的2001年8月6日遥感图像进行K-L和K-T变换,经过一系列波段结合．我们得到TM3、KL3、KT2波段结合是盐碱地信息提取的最佳波段结合;然后把研究区的等高线矢量图转换成DEM立体图,以及分类结果和DEM之间进行对比,结果表明,立体图的凹区和分类图的盐碱地基本重合在一起,从而我们得到导致该地区的盐渍化问题的自然和人文因素中,地形因素是占在主导地位的。     

DEM AGGREGATION FOR WATERSHED MODELING1

ABSTRACT: The widely available USGS 7.5‐minute Digital Elevation Model (DEM) has a cell size of approximately 30 m × 30 m. This high resolution topographic information is impractical for many applications of distributed hydrologic and water quality models. In this study, cells were aggregated into coarse‐resolution areal units, termed grids, and a method to approximate flow direction for coarse‐resolution grids from 30 m DEM cells was developed. The method considers the flow path defined from the fine‐resolution DEM in determining a grid's flow direction and makes flow directions for grids closely follow the flow pattern suggested by the DEM. The aggregation method was applied to a DEM of Goodwater Creek, a nearly flat watershed that is located in central Missouri. The drainage networks derived for different levels of cell aggregations showed that grid aggregates of the Goodwater Creek watershed provided an adequate representation of the landscape topography.